Kenya initiates large scale Wind Farms. But will it be enough?

Kenya has broken ground on a major renewable energy project for the country and for the African continent as a whole. The Lake Turkana Wind Power project will be the largest in Africa and is expected to provide around 17 percent of Kenya’s power demand.

It will be hard to tot up the carbon cuts in national contributions to a proposed global climate deal, says Morocco’s environment minister Hakima El Haite. Morocco will host a summit on country's climate plans in October.

The wind blows hard over Adama, a range of rocky hills in Ethiopia’s highlands that provide the perfect location for one of the continent’s largest wind farms.

Ministers from BASIC country, meeting in New York this week, have released a 21-point statement outlining how they see a global climate change pact working.

South Africa has been moving UN climate negotiations forward, but recent decisions to delay critical regulations on pollution have made many people back home begin to doubt its intent

A EU-devised summit in Morocco, scheduled for 12 and 13 October, will assess the adequacy of government's climate action pledges before a de facto UN deadline in November, EU sources have confirmed.

With more from the last week's REN21 report: Innovations in the renewable energy sector will be driven by collaboration among developing countries, signaling a shift from more established economies dominating technology development in this field.

Nancy Siali from Zambia, makes the case that conservation farming is a key step a in fighting climate change as resources are conserved for future generations.

Fadhili Meta from Tanzania writes about how climate change and extreme weather is displacing 10s of thousands in her home country, leading to a crisis in climate refugees.